Example sentences of "we [vb past] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agreed that without our set we felt as out of touch as two visitors from outer space . |
| 2 | I remember that we agreed that for nothing oh earth would we be young again . |
| 3 | After long discussions in which cyclists ’ opinions of horses were also aired , we agreed that in fact , riders and cyclists have many aims in common : both want traffic-free , cross-country routes . |
| 4 | Gradually we realised that despite the wealth , warmth and comfort , Templecombe held an eerie , sinister air . |
| 5 | She had a blood sugar reading of a hundred and sixty yesterday afternoon , and we realised that with the lighter schedule her morning component of NPH insulin will have to be raised . |
| 6 | No further discussion necessary on their budget let's get on with the serious business of funding real education in Hertfordshire which we asked and in this particular case the Labour party . |
| 7 | ( Before I went to work in the morning I would take a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush and deal with the black-and-white chequered marble shop doorstep — in my memory it is a glittering affair , although cold on frosty mornings — because at that time of the day the rising sun often shone full down the High Street where we lived and on me , as I knelt on the cobbled pavement plying my scrubbing-brush . ) |
| 8 | Erm I do n't know erm how it is like , as I say because I , I 've been left now ten years eleven , eleven in May er so erm I , I really , I do n't know what , how things are with the er with the employees really you know , but erm I used to enjoys my meetings once a month erm and I think everybody seemed fair , we got and of course , according to the Co- magazine that we have , that Focus , they always send me one of those still and er I mean , you 've got er , we used to have a good football team and I think they 've still got a sports team have n't they ? |
| 9 | We argued that for such students practice in the craft of writing would not only be valuable for its own sake but would help them appreciate the achievements of writers of the past and take an informed interest in contemporary writing : |
| 10 | Erm we realized that with the students going for Easter there would be a lack of seminars |
| 11 | " We realized that for a well-known trade union to be sued by its creditors and compulsorily wound up would have a very damaging effect upon the movement . |
| 12 | It was only eight weeks since we had left Aubagne yet there was a difference in the way in which we behaved and in which we saw ourselves . |
| 13 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |
| 14 | But what I did was , right before we started recording , I purchased a 1969 all-original Marshall 100 watt stack with the original speakers and we used that for most of the record for the rhythm tracks . |
| 15 | Instead of finding Whites had more favourable attitudes to the police than Blacks , and had been stopped , etc. , less ( as found in the studies of larger areas ) , we found that on some measures Whites were similar to Blacks in their attitude and experience , though there was still a tendency for Blacks to be less favourable to the police . |
| 16 | We found that on two occasions it was unable to copy a large file across 5 floppy discs . |
| 17 | And all that is is a hammer and stamp and er and they have a habit of buckling because we regularly , erm postcode cycles erm , with the introduction of the mountain bike we found that on the weaker frames we were buckling them . |
| 18 | Mm that 's what I mean , I y we found that with four , is even more so , what some people were strong on others were n't and it it worked round you know , if you picked your team right everybody would thought perhaps it was better to have one woman in the team or , you know , if you had four women |
| 19 | We found that with Ben and he changed Ben changed when when he actually matured . |
| 20 | We found that towards the end of the rehearsal period the actors during run-throughs referred to each other and related to each other in the offstage character ( Joyce , Neil , etc . ) . |
| 21 | We found that for the same journey in the same conditions , our average mpg shot up to 52 . |
| 22 | He told The Art Newspaper , ‘ Every two years we have a renewed clothes allowance , and we found that for a very little extra we could provide our warders with these outfits . |
| 23 | ‘ A first episode of bleeding several weeks ago led to a thyroid function test , and we found that to be a little low , so that 's now being treated medicinally . |
| 24 | And we found that over a period of , oh about a couple of months , the same people almost used to come round . |
| 25 | ‘ We started from the point of making the mass as low as possible , ’ Wortmann says , ‘ We found that by avoiding the turbulence of two rotors , we were able to achieve a rotor speed of 450 kilometres per hour at the tip — the fastest in the world . ’ |
| 26 | I have a slow heartbeat , about 67 or 68 , but we found that in a quiet passage of music before a climax the heartbeat could rise to 170 . |
| 27 | Although there are specialist personnel and industrial relations roles , we found that in smaller firms the negotiations with trade unions were carried by a very few managers . |
| 28 | As Appendix II , and indeed the main survey results , make clear , it is not necessarily low income which makes credit at the same time both an obvious refuge and an unduly heavy burden — though in the main survey we found that in general people on low incomes were more likely to say that they were worried about money than people on high incomes . |
| 29 | We found that in each case it was necessary to think of three dimensions . |
| 30 | Whereas many developed countries are learning to resolve the contradictions and find new sources of advantage , we found that in our three countries the choices forced on them were not readily perceived as necessarily beneficial . |